IS THERE A PERSON WHO, A REASONABLE PERSON
WOULD
THINK, COULDTRY AND MOTIVATE MR. CULHAM TO MAKE A BIAS
JUDGEMENT?

The Mayor of Mississauga - Hazel McCallion
- overview

Hazel McCallion is described by persons who
have known and worked with her for years as the kind of person who sees
winning as everything and believes that the end justifies the
means.
This includes abuse of her power and office. It would be perfectly
reasonable
to believe (in my experience) that she would expect City staff or
people
she generally has influence over to behave in the same fashion to aid
in
her unsavoury, if not unlawfully undertakings. Another key
element
noted over and over in this brief is that the media does not report
Hazel
McCallion's actions and inactions fully or responsibly.[1] Mr.
Culham
would likely have as little success as I have had if he tried to expose
the dark side of the Queen of Urban Sprawl and the McCallion Methods at
work.

Given the Mayor's past, informed people's
opinion
of her and her documented Modus Operandi, a reasonable person
would
believe that in all likelihood Hazel McCallion could be the source of
Mr.
Culham's actions or inactions both in the past and currently. A
reasonable
person would see the Mayor as currently having many of the means to
influence
Mr. Culham as she would have had in the past. In many ways it
would
be just like old times and the Mayor is very likely to act as she has
in
the past out of habit. (They say you can't teach an old dog new
tricks)
Ex-Councillor Culham would also be in the habit of knowing what the
Mayor
would want after years of serving her, to get what he wanted.
This
is about raising legitimate concerns and questions about his ongoing
fear
and/or loyalty to her and the possibility of his seeking her favors or
avoiding her scorn, even if unconsciously.

1 - Doc. 3.4, item A & Doc. 51

The Mayor's character - What people who
know
the Mayor say about the way she conducts herself and her noted
characteristics

These are just a few of the comments and
observations
that can be quoted;

Doc.# 3.2 - Item B - "She was seen as: the feisty fighter, ...she's
an attacker, very aggressive, not afraid to take on anyone, quite often
unjustly,"

Doc.# 3.1 - "when she's in front of people, she's very nice and
smiling
and, when she's behind them, it's another matter." In other words
two faced.

* Expresses degrading and
belittling opinions towards others?

Doc.# 32 - ""What a childish move," McCallion said" & ""He's off
the deep end," the mayor said of the councillor. "He's got the
other
councillors upset. I don't know what his problem is but he's got
a serious problem.""

Doc.# 3.2 - Item D - "McCallion says Graham carries a grudge because
"I defeated him on a major issue over some land between a property
owner
and a lawn bowling club, and he was very upset about it ... He doesn't
take defeat too easily." Graham says his motivation was a desire
to protect Democratic processes "from, the McCallions and her breed."

Doc.# 3.3 - Item B - "Graham took McCallion to court, a move that
cost
him $30,000 personally and McCallion says "appears to be a case of sour
grapes."" Act with high morals and the Mayor portrays you in a
negative
light.

* Vengeful?

Doc.# 3.2 - Item B & C - "McCallion occasionally has had to face
the results of her shoot-'em-up politics. "She has enemies
which she's developed over the years," Mahoney say, "because, to put it
bluntly, she has annihilated a few people in her rise to the centre
chair."
McCallion's path is littered with bitter ex-associates and adversaries
who toss off accusations of unbridled ambition, an ability to play the
press and public and a voracious capacity
for
revenge."

From the Toronto Life May 2000 article "There was, too, that
proposed
widening of Britannia Road, an issue that came before regional
council.
Mahoney was for, McCallion against. Mahoney won.
Retribution?
"She turned to me afterward and said, "I'll get you for this,""
says Mahoney. "That had me shaking for a few days .... I
don't
know whether Hazel or myself want this to be made public."

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* Does not care about the
harm she may cause others?

Doc.# 50.1 - "then chips the puck back to McCallion. She's got
a clear shot. Right from the blue line. Surely she keeps in
mind the rules of engagement -- no contact, no slapshots -- as she
winds
up and shoots the puck at about the altitude of Starr's ear.
He drops his gloves and starts protesting, and Dubs McCallion
begins
to skate a victory lap around the goal, even though she didn't score.
And she's raising her stick above her little toqued head as Starr
screams:
"Hazel, don't you know the rules?" To which the mayor says,
"Ron,
I make my own rules." And that, says Frank Bean, long retired
from politics, is the way Hazel McCallion is to this day."
She acted like she did something great, so it appears she likes to hurt
people if given the chance and can reasonably get away with it.

Doc.# 50.3 - "It's kind of like the bruises you -- get ... when
someone
punches you with a telephone book," says Clement of McCallion's
style.
"You don't see the outside bruises, but there's internal organ damage."

* Does the Mayor
apologize
for her transgressions?

Doc.# 47 - "Roy Willis, a member of the public who has fought for
residents'
rights for many years, came forward to ask our mayor for an apology for
a comment she made at the Nov. 29 Cawthra meeting." ... "The mayor
refused
to apologize, then called her opinion a "fact""

Doc.# 48 - "Mayor Hazel McCallion belligerently interjected and
accused
me
of being a "troublemaker""..."mayor McCallion who, to my shock, not
only
failed to offer a deserved apology but rather she verbally attacked me
again." This was done in City Council chambers and broadcasted on
Cable 10 TV.

The Mayor is also refered to as a racist
for
her comments about immigrants "If you go to the Credit Valley
Hospital
the emergency is loaded with people in their native costumes." etc. and
her unwillingness to apologize for these comments too. This is in
stark contrast to Mayor Mel Lastman of Toronto, who in a lesser
situation
repeatedly apologized.

These quotes show the Mayor's excessive
territorial
or possessiveness regarding what she sees as her City and her right to
rule it. Many will tell you she leaves people thinking it is her
unquestionable divine right to rule ("she'd been appointed God",
Doc.# 32) that justifies her disregard for the concerns of others, no
matter
how reasonable.

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* Excessive Ego?

Doc.# 3.1 - "McCallion is not at all shy about advancing her own
legend."

Doc.# 3.1 - "She meanders through political ideologies. She's
basically conservative, and that would be her principal line, position
would depend upon the public mood or what she perceived to be the
public
mood. Hazel has, over the years, taken positions that are 180
degrees
apart."

* Questionable grasp on
reality?

After 30 years as a politician, that alone
would be enough to make a person wonder if the Mayor can tell fact from
political fantasy. The fact she is into her 80's raises
legitimate
concerns about the physical state of her mind. Add to this years
of conduct as noted above and generally getting away with whatever she
cares to do when she wants to. As this includes vengeful acts,
lets
not forget that paranoia plays a strong role in the thought process
that
justifies revenge. The well known phrase comes to mind - power
corrupts
and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Then there is what she said during the Mar.
29/00 City Council meeting that was being broadcasted to the whole City
of Mississauga by Cable 10. "There is a coup going on,
there
is no question about it, Mr. Barber is a member of it and I hope no
member
of Council are involved."[1] It sound like HAL in the movie 2001
- I am losing my mind, there is no doubt about. Would the media
cover
it? NO! They refused to cover it or even view the
video
tape of it.

1 - On the Video Tape.

The McCallion Method - What people
who
know the Mayor say about the way she does business, her management
techniques
and her Modus Operandi, or the McCallion management style
that
defines the corporate culture in Mississauga's City hall.

The McCallion Method is the typical winning
is everything, therefore the end justifies the means, extreme political
philosophy but as it is being carried out by a little old lady, who is
a central figure in this matter. Naming her Modus Operandi
is appropriate. It has made the Mayor of Mississauga such a
success
over the years. Due to space limitations, specific examples for
all
her methods will not be presented, however they can easily be seen as
part
of the other examples provided. A reasonable person reading over what
others
have said about the Mayor would think to themselves that there is a
single
word that describes a person with those qualities - a Bully.

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The Mayor's methods include:

* The Big Lie. As time goes on
the Mayor depends more and more on this method, knowing the media will
not expose her. As the Big Lie is where the perceptions she
creates
are completely the opposite of the facts, it is very hard to deal
with.
A person has to explain what is being said is completely wrong.
This
includes blaming other levels of government for why something can or
can
not be done or something taxpayers see as undesirable is going to
happen.

* The Lie of Omission. (The
Mayor's
next favourite method and often used by City staff.) Tell the
public
only what supports getting a certain goal and suppress the facts
against
it. Such as, support for City plans, control public opinion and
not
encouraging public opposition.

* Attack those who disagree.
Confrontation
is Hazel's personal favourite and speciality. Get in a person's
face
with as much ugliness as possible to make them give up and go
away.
Once a person is centred out for abuse by politicians, City staff are
expected
to join in (if they know what's good for them). This included
labelling
people in a demeaning way, filing false reports about them and
generally
abuse of government power.

* Controlling the Process.
This
includes unlawful methods such as denying the public access to
City
records by way of the FOI Act. This and other methods ensures the
public involvement and input is limited and what is allowed is next to
meaningless, so the City desired outcome is not endangered.
Control
a meeting by controlling the minutes of the meeting, putting words in
peoples
mouths and claiming certain events took place when they did not and not
reporting the speaker's points accurately. Keeping the facts off
the official record.

* Exaggerated Praise. Calling
City
staff world class or their work second to none. Staff praise
Councillors,
groups praise the City (or else!) everyone praises everyone as it is
all
so perfect in Mississauga. Awards for everyone that the City can
brag about too.

* Control the media, one way or the
other.[1]
Most important and the details to show cause for concern in this regard
would take a book but there are some good quote's in other sections to
show I am not alone with this concern.

1 - Doc. 3.4, item A & Doc. 51

Other elements of the Mayor's dictatorial management style:

* The Mayor can do as
she
pleases without fear that the media will report the facts or theevents that would undermine her popularity
and result in
taxpayers treating her like apolitician.

Doc.# 3.3, Item D - "the judge found her guilty on four
counts.
The people either didn't care or they didn't understand. That's
what
infuriates me, when she can get up and make those statements of
innocence
virtually unchallenged."

Doc.# 32 - "This is what happens overtly at public meetings and
everyone
goes into a denial process."

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* Hazel rules as a
dictator
would, abusively and in an anti-Democratic fashion.

Doc.# 50.1 - "Hazel, don't you know the rules?" To which the
mayor
says, "Ron, I make my own rules."

Doc.# 50.1 - "Many of them owe their existence to her, because the
council
looked good, and if she was there for you, you weren't going to get
defeated."
About getting Councillors to vote a certain way and Councillors
depended
on Hazel's good graces more than voter support.

Doc.# 3.2 - Item B - ""She thrives on confrontation ... "The
difference
between you and me is that I see a problem as being a temporary
impediment
to a solution, and you look at it as a political platform."

Doc.# 50.2 - "He has something to say, he insists. The mayor
cuts
him off. But, he bleats, here she is "getting direction from
staff
without councillors even getting a say on it, and that's wrong. "The
mayor:
"Well, I think as mayor I have the right to raise questions.
Maybe
some day if you ever become mayor, councillor, you might." He
whinges
(sic): "Don't degenerate into personalities, Madam Mayor. The
fact
of the matter is..." The mayor takes a sharp verbal left, cuts
him
off again, and Councillor Culham pretty much shrivels up and dies."

Doc.# 50.2 - Councillor Taylor protested the rezoning that landed
the
Mayor in court and she did not forget that - "I was cast out with the
lepers,"
says Larry Taylor of the miserable days and months following the court
proceedings. He says he found himself shut out of development
planning
that had been his turf. He says he found himself unable to push
through
his own ward business, in a particular instance a stop sign he had
pledged
adjacent to a Ward 4 school. He complained of the "grinding" way
in which his paperwork plodded through the city
bureaucracy."
He dared to do his Democratic duty and questioned her worship!

Doc.# 50.3 - "Taylor went down to defeat in the municipal election
of
November 1988. He says McCallion sent letters to the
electorate
challenging his credibility. The day after the election, The
Mississauga News addressed the mayor's role in the councillor's defeat:
"McCallion denies that 900 letters she sent last week to ratepayers in
the Kingsbridge community accusing Taylor of lying about efforts to
obtain
an all-way stop sign influenced the vote. ... A one-time
high-ranking
staffer who watched the McCallion-Taylor match closely says the truth
is
simple: "Hazel kneecapped him."" Is this not proof
enough of how far Hazel McCallion is willing to go, apparently using
government
resources or taxpayers money, to carry out an act of revenge?

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* Hazel is
confrontational
and dictatorial towards others but requires everyone to participate in
creating the facade of smooth running business with no real
confrontations,
one big happy family. To do City business largely in secret is to
limit the publics involvement, limit Democratic processes and limit the
understanding of the Mississauga political processes.

Doc.# 3.4 - Item A - "Hazel McCallion, and going back to The News to
write an editorial decrying what he felt were its secretive ways.
"What happened is that every Monday council would have a nice little
closed
caucus meeting in a room across from the council chamber, where they
would
make all the decisions. Then they would traipse across the hall
and
let in the press and public".

Doc.# 3.4 - Item B - "things are surprisingly sedate on the
battlefield
of Mississauga politics. "One thing I'm proud to have established
as mayor is that the confrontational politics in Mississauga has gone
from
the council itself," says the Mayor. "Those people whom I have
defeated
and who don't like my open, straightforward approach to things, they'll
never go away, I guess. But we've eliminated confrontation at the
council level during my four years as mayor. Councillors consult
with each other, they don't hold grudges." ... "Others consider the
decorum
at City Hall eerie. "There's purge of all open debate,"

Doc.# 50.1 - "She's put this cast on her council, this pall," says
Howard
Moscoe. "They're sort of clones. They walk and breathe like
Hazel .... In the minds of the public, for the most part, council
doesn't exist .... Hazel determines how it is. Hazel's the
closest
thing to divine right in this province that I've seen."

The City of Mississauga would profit and as
such
so would the Mayor in financing her dream

It is no secret that Hazel McCallion wants
the City Mississauga to separate from the Region of Peel. One
reason
is that it would give more power to Mississauga to control its Planning
process. The Mayor is rightfully called the Queen of Sprawl for
the
harmful over development that has occurred in Mississauga. This
over
development has brought in huge amounts of money which has been used to
keep taxes down, a key element in why Hazel has been re-elected over
and
over. Over development and her political career/legacy are
linked.

As the Mayor runs the City like a business
and the business model she uses is to develop, in an almost reckless
fashion,
to keep the corporation of the City of Mississauga rolling in
money.
Development has to be sustained at high levels; this despite the fact
that
the large farms used in the past for subdivisions are mostly
gone.
The motivation to eliminate mature, safe and stable communities, like
the
Northmount community is great. The Mayor sees the land and homes
owned by taxpayers as a CEO would see business assets and a good
business
choice would be to liquidate those assets for the high profits that
redeveloping
the area to higher densities would bring.[1] It may be good for
City
profit taking but it is bad urban Planning, for communities and for
people's
health and that is a core issue in this case. The Mayor needs
more
power in controlling the urban Planning inside the City of Mississauga,
in order to make more money to run the City and which will
further
her political career. Also it will add greatly to her political
legacy
if she can make Mississauga a separate City. The pressure is on
the
aging Mayor to act fast and create her City, her legacy, so others
around
her would be feeling the pressure to make her dream come true.

* Is the Mayor the kind
of person who cares little for the environment?

This question needs to be asked as it is
key
to the idea that the Mayor could in fact be taking certain actions or
inactions
that will in time destroy the Cawthra Bush's environmental
significance,
its high quality natural heritage (that is its only protection), as
being
reasonable because it would permit greater development in the
area.
That is if it can be done so no one blames her or the City.

The Mayor of Mississauga is rightful called
the Queen of Sprawl. The Mayor approved plans to log and tree
farm
all the City's wooded areas in Mississauga, starting with the Cawthra
Bush
but the FCB stopped her. It is likely the Mayor still holds a
grudge
over that, as a City wide logging and tree farming operation would have
brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars, which was money lost she
was
banking on. Would it not also be likely that the Ex-Councillor
Culham
feels ill-will towards the FCB & CRRA or me for the loss of money
to
the City? Money that could have helped fund his projects and
would
he not feel heat as it was some environmentalist that cost the City as
it did? The same could be said about the planting of the easement
area down the side of the Cawthra Bush.

Developers have no love for the environment
and Hazel McCallion is a developer.[1] She has been the director
of the company that put a subdivision on the land that she was
"convicted
of conflict of interest" regarding its rezoning.[2] She has been
involved in other companies that have done questionable land
deals.[3]
One of her son's is a real estate agent.[4] And do not forget
this![7]

"Mayor Hazel McCallion questioned the
appearance
of the Cawthra woodlot. Driving past it, you can see many trees
leaning
over in an unsightly manner. "It looks like we're not maintaining
it," McCallion said."[5] Statements like that make it perfectly
clear
the Mayor has no clue about forest ecology or what a healthy
environmentally
significant forest should look like.[6] The values system she is
expressing is more in keeping with how a garden is kept or from the
1940's.

The Mayor has expressed opinions that show
she sees little value in the Cawthra Bush as an Old-Growth ecosystem or
a Wetlands. She has supported logging to make money and using the
Cawthra Bush as a recreation area. As the Mayor is well noted as
a vengeful person, it is not unreasonable to suggest she would see the
Cawthra Bush destroyed and the community that supported the effort
eliminated,
to get back at those who have been a thorn in her side since 1994.

* Is the Mayor the kind
of person who would try and unduly influence a person in Culham's
position?

From what I know of her past and her
personality
and what others have gone on the records as saying, I would say
yes.
Her staff have used unlawful methods and even elected officials
openly note their fear of what Hazel would do to them if they
displeased
her. It is interesting that the Mayor shows no sign of regret
regarding
the comments made by those she has climbed over to get where she is
today.

*
Under
the rule of Mayor Hazel McCallion, are there signs to point to a
culture
ofcorruption or highly questionable conduct in
Mississauga that would be in keepingwith the issues noted in this brief?

As noted before, the Mayor was a developer
while sitting as the Mayor or on City Council. Allan Randles was
also a business partner of the Mayor during this same time period and
sat
on the Committee of Adjustment that deals with minor variances to City
zoning By-laws.[1] When the matter of whether Hazel knew ""Mr.
Randalls,"
whether "Randalls" was a Macran director, whether Macran has
Mississauga
property and whether she owned property outside Mississauga? Her
lawyer, J.L. Finally, instructed her not to answer."[2]
Interesting,
yes? Macran and Peter McCallion were involved in an interesting
sale
of a property in which "The price had increased $132,900 in seven
months".[3]
People can make a lot of money in boom towns like Mississauga but those
people are not supposed to be its elected officials or their friends
and
family! Cronyizm and patronage are terms I hear often.

Mississauga has been a boom town for some
time
and it is a well known fact that in such environments corruption in its
many forms flourishes. Apart from Hazel McCallion's case of being
in
court and losing, there is the recent case of Ex-Councillor Cliff Gyles
who may have set a record for charges laid against an elected official
and convictions in Canada. His list includes 2 charges under the
Municipal Elections Act - exceeding the maximum campaign expense limit
in 2000, giving a financial statement and auditor's report that did not
state his true election campaign expenses;[4] Guilty on four
criminal
counts - 2 counts of municipal corruption - 2 counts of breach of
trust.[5]
The criminal charges were regarding demanding and accepting bribes
in
relations to re-zoning matters. (More details here.[6]) If
they
say Hazel is as honest as the next politician, then literally
that would have been Cliff as he sat right beside the Mayor in City
Council chambers. Was the lady to replace Mr. Gyles on City
Council
much better? Two members of her family were arrested during the
election
campaign and charged with stealing the election signs of her political
rivals.[7]

Then there is the question of why the Mayor
became so interested and involved in the Northmount matter, even coming
out to the second last (Feb. 4/4) public meeting to try and crush
community
opposition. The Mayor's efforts to see this matter approved are
clearly
noted. Just as it is noted that the land on the north side of the
Queensway, just west of Dixie Rd., has had a for sale sign up for
almost
a year and the Real Estate agent was Peter McCallion. Then early
in 2004 his sign came down and a sign announcing that Moldenhauer
Developments
Inc., (the Northmount developers) is the new developer on the site went
up. As the Mayor would say - interesting.

A recent development, "Developer alleges
Mayor
McCallion affected land deal".[1] The $20 million law-suite
claims
in part that Hazel McCallion used "her power" or "political
interference",
"to induce Ontario Realty not to sell" land it owned. Ontario
Realty
Corp., is a Provincial agency and this complaint is very similar to the
complaints I have been making that Mississauga's Mayor has been using
her
political power and influence to interfere with Provincial processes
like
Freedom Of Information Appeals and this OMB Appeal. In this case
she is being taken to court by those (developers) who can afford to buy
justice and in all likelihood it will be settled out of court, so Hazel
will not have to take the witness stand, again and give sworn
testimony.
Taxpayer's money will likely be used to settle this out of court.

So far the legal action being taken against
her has not been reported by the Mississauga News, sometimes called the
"Missing news". Interesting that the Mississauga News can't find
enough space between its adds to report the skulduggery involving the
Mayor
of Mississauga, the 6th largest City in Canada while she is waging her
separate City campaign.

The media in the beginning portrayed her as
a successful women in politics, a role model for other women at a time
when there were few women politicians. Then the media started to
make lots of money through real estate adds from the Queen of Sprawl's
over development of Mississauga, turning a blind eye to her
increasingly
dictatorial behaviour, as it made good business sense to support the
politician
who makes you the most money.[2] Over time this lack of reporting
has allowed the Mayor to get more and more outrageous in her behaviour
as the media was not there to reign her in. The media should see
that it has a responsibility to be part of the checks and balances in a
Democracy but that is increasing not the case. I have wrote to
the
major news papers in the area about having a story about the Mayor of
Mississauga
and the response from Conrad Black it the best example of how they feel
- "Mr. Black's relations with Mayor McCallion have always been
perfectly
civil and although your story is "unique" the proposal in not one
which
Mr. Black would be interested in pursuing."[3]

Now it has gotten to the point where if the
media was to start reporting the facts the public would ask the
question,
why has the media not reported the facts for so long? Creating
such
bad circumstance now, the media is like Dr. Frankenstein. The
media
can see they have created a monster and it is running amuck but they do
not act responsibly, vainly believing they can cover-up or under-report
Hazel's transgressions, until it no longer matters. Her gender
and
age have helped the Mayor get away with murdering our Democratic
processes,
since many believe how dare anyone pick on a little old grandmother!